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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ellie Ng

Disabled woman ‘victim of a catalogue of catastrophic failures’, inquest hears

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A disabled woman who died days after she was dropped by care home workers was a “victim of a catalogue of catastrophic failures”, her sister has told an inquest.

Lyn Parker, 64, fractured her ribs and both arms when she fell at least 1.5 metres after two care workers tried to lift her from her wheelchair into her bed using a sling at Tudor Avenue Residential Care Home in Hampton, south London.

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